In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

Oracle is joining Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program at the premier level, according to the two companies. The VSIP program enables ISV partners to ensure interoperability ...